The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)

by Edmund Morris

“Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick”

In any case it is the availability of raw power, not the use of it, that makes for effective diplomacy.

He will continue to read in the light of a student lamp, peering through his one good eye (the other is almost blind) at the book held inches from his nose, flicking over the pages at a rate of two or three a minute.115